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nott   
6 Apr 2011
Off-Topic / Being a Slav: a blessing or a curse? [199]

She's neither hot nor EXTRA. No specimen in that particular way. :)

She's a 'typical' Ukrainian, the essence of a Ukrainian woman. From what I know you are a German, so you won't be able to get it.

Simple PR, obviously, but I bet it works wonders.

Nathan, there's another Slavic thing, I forgot: worship of Slavic women. Oh, to be strict, I don't know about Southern Slavs.

Nope.

Good man :)

but the nose, cheeks and look

No, the cheeks... the look is... damn you, Nathan. The look is. I am not a poet. Not currently. Ok, you scored a point, happy? Damn bloody Ukrainians...
nott   
6 Apr 2011
Off-Topic / Being a Slav: a blessing or a curse? [199]

Show some REAL specimen if you understand what that term means. :)

Geez, you made me use my dictionary....

An individual, item, or part representative of a class, genus, or whole

Now tell me she is not a representative. She a fkn Prime Minister! :)

And don't mix Polish politics into it, oh-key?
nott   
6 Apr 2011
Off-Topic / Being a Slav: a blessing or a curse? [199]

She is Ukrainian through and through. Typical delicateness of a Ukrainian woman face. Unrepeatable. Deep eyes... and perfect lips.

Fk sake, stop it! Got some clear thinking to do...

Right. Thing is, she looks more like Italian on the first pic, innit? :)

we definitely buried more than brought to this world together, historically

disputable. Highly.

Still, I am trying to capture what might be the uniting element for the Slavs, because I feel that there is.

Sure there is. Common belief that we have something in common :)

And I am being quite serious now, actually. Identity is just that. Except for that, and the languages, obviously, I can't see anything much. Common origin. Mostly, possibly. So what, it was 15 hundred years ago.

What's with that rope on her head?

Huh? This is traditional. A long plait pinned up in a form of a halo. Ancient apotropaic magic, to ward off idiots.
nott   
6 Apr 2011
Off-Topic / Being a Slav: a blessing or a curse? [199]

Poles are more blonde on average and have less rounded lids' openning for eyes.

Hm... you mean this specimen:

Yulia

would be rather Ukrainian, and this one:

Yulia

rather Polish...?
:)

Well, seems the closer we are, the more differences we see inside the nation. Slightly aside, and some more or less vague generalisation emerges.

Generally speaking it can't be an insult to call somebody a non-Slav. Though when deliberately calling a Slav not a Slav could be that.

But you just assume that Russians are Slavs by definition. Now what the definition is, except 'speaking a Slavic language'?

Not earlier than you prove me that the Poles are Slavs.

I started thinking about it right after posting, and no, I'd rather not. Can you think about a set of a handful of features that fit both a Russian and a Czech, a Pole and a Macedonian?

I suspect I know why Nathan doesn't think Russians are Slavs, but come on. Czechs are half German, Slovaks are half Hungarian, Bulgarians are half Turkish. Different history, different cultures, different religions, different mentalities.
nott   
5 Apr 2011
Love / Connecting with GAY MEN IN POLAND [55]

how often you chat about your love life to a bunch of elderly married couples?

I don't visit other countries to chat about my love life.

Either you're being disingenuous or just stupid. From your previous form, probably both.

Seems I am getting my answer, although indirectly. Obliged.
nott   
4 Apr 2011
Love / Connecting with GAY MEN IN POLAND [55]

nott: Either it is just about sex,
Or perhaps love.

Or love...

nott: gays are really somehow different from the straights

And football fans might want to chat about different topics to golfers. Of course they can talk about football with them, but don't you think it would be a bit tiring having to continuously explain the offside rule?

So what would be those topics, excluding sex/love, that women and straight men do not comprehend?
nott   
4 Apr 2011
Love / Connecting with GAY MEN IN POLAND [55]

Why do you think they aren't or assume he doesn't have straight friends already?

Doesn't really matter, does it? What he's looking for, are gay friends and acquaintances. Imagine I wrote the OP:

I am a frequent visitor to the UK. I would like to know if there are any online forums where I can be in touch with fckable women in the UK. I love making new friends and acquaintances, and I thought people on this board would know of some sites.

Why I transcripted 'gays' as 'fckable women', whadya think?

There's a deeper question in it, jonni. Either it is just about sex, or gays are really somehow different from the straights, so a gay man needs that continuous contact with them.
nott   
4 Apr 2011
Love / Connecting with GAY MEN IN POLAND [55]

read: bserchuk: be in touch with other gay men in Poland.

That's what I read. What's that in being gay that straight people are not considered potential friends nor acquaintances?
nott   
4 Apr 2011
Off-Topic / Being a Slav: a blessing or a curse? [199]

They inherited the concept of the Byzantine Empire.

They used the concept, as 'opium for the masses'.

Byzantium was an offspring of Roman Empire, crated by Romans. A this time most Slavs were happy heathens, fighting their tribal wars in natural accordance with the Nature and the Slavic spirit. Thus the borders were fluid...
nott   
4 Apr 2011
Love / Connecting with GAY MEN IN POLAND [55]

forums where I can be in touch with other gay men in Poland. I love making new friends and acquaintances

Provided they are gay...?
nott   
4 Apr 2011
Off-Topic / Being a Slav: a blessing or a curse? [199]

Slavs the only ones who created an Empire worth mentioning.

Not a Slavic thing, empire.

Not that it can insult me or the Russians in general

Now why would you suggest that this could be an insult, calling somebody a non-Slav?

how can anyone in his right mind can take the thread seriously after this statement. :)

It's about a specific group of nations, so discussion about a strict definition of this group is a prudent thing to do, I'd say. Might help us find those elusive Slavic features.

Hm... I am not trying to be provoking this time, but if you could take this accusation seriously and took some effort to prove us that Russians are Slavs like any other Slavic nation, this would help us immensely in this discussion.

nott: Ukrainians are more uniformed, as are Germans, the English, Italians, etc

Interesting. But I think it is not far from what Poland has.

I see it is a myth shared by some/many Poles. But if you just go out in any Polish city, preferably not Kraków or Warszawa, where foreigners could taint your samples, and try to picture an average Pole, you still fail miserably. All colours and shapes, as I said. Especially in summer.
nott   
2 Apr 2011
Off-Topic / Being a Slav: a blessing or a curse? [199]

There was strong sexual selection in Polish females, that's why they are so beautiful. Polish men are damn ugly bastards. This contrast proves that they evolved as a nation.

I don;t fully follow your reasoning here... anyway, Polish women, and men, are of all shapes and colours, in reasonable limits. Ukrainians are more uniformed, as are Germans, the English, Italians, etc.


No such thing as a full Pole. Everybody could dig out some foreign ancestor, and let's not forget that the nation wasn't really formed until somewhere near Renaissance.

We have to carefully extract Slavic genes into alcohol,

Aah, now you talkin... Alcoholic extract, pure essence of the Slavic spirit! Rright! :)

Come to think of it, I vaguely recollect such experiments being done... on numerous occasions even... so you've hit the nail in the head, yes. The common Slavic thing is that deep conviction, based on a long and extensive research, that we truly know what being Slavic means, since we must've seen it so many times with our own eyes! :)

Edit:

They love their ethanol.

That's a very mystic thing, man. A quest to the roots, like. Don't take it lightly
nott   
2 Apr 2011
Off-Topic / Being a Slav: a blessing or a curse? [199]

What exactly we take into account when we correctly predict the origin.

Don't count Poles in, then. Mongrel nation, and it shows. I am being told 'And I thought you were British', and my friend is considered either French or 'maybe Greek'. I do recognize Poles in London, by looks, but it's more because of clothes and behaviour, than physical features. Polish girls, famously beautiful, are just more classy, or preoccupied, than the English.

Common genes, I am not convinced. Slavs are considered a quite mysterious group as comes to origins. There might have been several waves of migration, from different areas, and so on. Nobody knows, actually.

We also usually die when we have above 44 degrees body temperature, British are more resilient and go over 100 and it is still considered OK

Now that is solid evidence, and experimentally testable :)

Hm, now we could heat people up, see who perishes, and then find their other common features, by way of strict mathematical analysis... brilliant, Nathan :)
nott   
1 Apr 2011
Off-Topic / Being a Slav: a blessing or a curse? [199]

Dacians. Dacians were Sarmatians.

Sorry, Crow, I don't really believe that a specific, hypothetical common ancestry from before Slavs realised they were Slavs has any noticeable impact on modern nations. Must be some much more recent thing.

How thick is a British pencil?

Quarter inch, now international standard. Except that the Ukrainian inch must be way bigger... :)
nott   
1 Apr 2011
Off-Topic / Being a Slav: a blessing or a curse? [199]

personally don't consider Russians Slavic, but it is a different topic. "We", probably, comes from having related mental construct, (...)

Ah well. So 'Slavic' is just a term we use for something rather popular in the area, although not necessarily defining the Slavic peoples in full nor with any real attempt on precision. I can live with it. Still, none of the features mentioned until now are, for me, neither specific to Slavs nor characterising all Slavs.

Ok, seems I can't live with it, actually. We do have that feeling of belonging, but it seems to me it's based on some kind of delusion.
nott   
1 Apr 2011
Off-Topic / Being a Slav: a blessing or a curse? [199]


Sounds good. Now I met a few Romanians in the UK, and I was amazed how Polish they were. I was catching myself on stray thoughts like 'why are we speaking English and not... aha'.
nott   
1 Apr 2011
Off-Topic / Being a Slav: a blessing or a curse? [199]

Good effort :)

Edit: Still, there is that feeling that we Slavs are, well, we. Where does it come from, though. Just don't say that it's a result of the panslavic Russian propaganda.
nott   
1 Apr 2011
Off-Topic / Being a Slav: a blessing or a curse? [199]

I agree that Slavs are humans too, but what makes them unique, likeable and dispisable, funny and serious, talented or not that much capable?

A test question: what do Czechs and Russians have in common?
nott   
1 Apr 2011
Off-Topic / Being a Slav: a blessing or a curse? [199]

Difficult. I tried to put together some typical 'Slavic' features, and for each and every one I could find a Slavic nation that didn't fit, and often a non-Slavic one that fitted. And all that within my limited range of Slavs that I am more or less familiar with. Shame, but I do not know much about Yugoslavians, and I remember being surprised to learn that Macedonians are a Slavic people.
nott   
26 Feb 2011
Language / Harmless old-fashioned Polish swear words/phrases [159]

How about: "do kroćset" (doh krotch-set)? I'm not even trying to translate it... ;)

'to multitude of hundreds'. Probably a short form of 'do kroćset diabłów'. It's rather ancient.

But my all-time favorite old-fashioned phrase is KRUCAFUKS. Spell it: "krootza-fookhz", with an accent on the second part.

Comes from 'crucifix'. I'd say it came from adopting the German habit of swearing by holy names, Himmelherrgottkruzifix etc. Krucafuks was, and maybe still is, popular with Górals, and I heard it in Silesia too. Some people use it still, I believe.
nott   
17 Dec 2010
News / Polish President Lech Kaczynski and gov officials die in a plane crash in Russia [686]

I guess the only thing that would be accepted is for the Russians to admit that they loaded all these people on to one plane , made it take off late , somehow created bad weather , and induced the pilot to fly way below a safe height...

There is that crappy flight control thread too. Not actually pursued, rather like sidetracked by the Russian side. What I heard was first that the Polish pilot didn't know Russian numerals, then that some people are impossible to find in the immeasurable vastness of Russia under Putin and so on.
nott   
17 Dec 2010
History / Old Polish Flag [17]

So this is the right side. The Polish Eagle faces right, as most heraldic beasts do. The heraldic right is the right side of the person standing behind the shield with the coats of arms, so it's the beast's right side too.

Hand sewn, family tradition... I doubt anybody outside of your family would be able to say anything particular about this very flag, but I know you should be proud of it. Very proud. At the very least it was something ready to hang at your house after the victory, but it might've been an actual banner of an insurgents' unit. Beats my grandfather's sabre.
nott   
17 Dec 2010
History / Tuchola in Poland - roots of Katyn? [220]

nott: You want to develop it, make a thread, I'll show up.
What for, nott? So I waste my time on someone like you who doesn't even give a f*ck to do some research before making a claim?

I did, as in other cases, just didn't want to embarrass you too much. I didn't really care to go far beyond 'promoting gay love on stage', 'the most scandalous, thus best-selling', 'Russian director'. You want to claim him, your choice, just show me what he really did besides showing nude men in public.

It is useless. I lost my interest after your last post.

Feels bad to loose everytime, innit.

This is my last post here.

In the PF? Good.

I admitted my mistake, I do it again now, won't repeat it again. You want it chiselled in marble, get your own tools and material.

In addition, what did Germans do just 3 weeks after crossing the Oder in Peremyshel'?

They didn't get to Peremyshel' before summer 1941, boy. I don't know what they did in this shithole, possibly killed somebody. Not really interested, loads of people got killed those times.

You have been had in just 3 weeks

You have been had before anybody ever dreamed about Ukraine. Some achievement.

"In the United States Viktiuk is included in the category of "50 people in the world that shaped the second half of the twentieth century." Well, but you are the expert, right?! ;)

I bet you got tons of links with theatrical reviews about him shaping the century. Pity they don't show up in Google.

UPA had around 400,000 people in 1944 -

Nah, Nathan. They had 988 thousand, latest research by the National Historical Panel on UPA. The NHPUPA has just published it, you're out of touch. And they expect to get to 1.2 million by spring, and to 1.8 by Orthodox Christmas next Year, or maybe even to 2.1, if researching is good.

That's how you do it, Nathan. Just doubling the highest known guesstimate will take you nowhere, contemporary Ukrainian history is highly competitive. Dog eat dog, and you are a sorry amateur, face that.

not exactly soldiers,

Oh really. And not exactly in 1939. Huge Polish mistake not to befriend them in time to fight the German invasion.

nott: What with those millions of soldiers. And you are happy :)

This is not funny any more Nathan. They didn't die for your country. Most of them died as Soviet kanonenfutter, and the result of their deaths was the Ukrainian SSR, where your language was prosecuted. The same UkSSR, where millions of people died of forced starvation. Tragic, nothing to be fvcking happy about.

nott: My family comes from near the Ukrainian border, I should be naturally inclined to hate your guts, I don't

MY family still remembers UPA, first hand, Nathan. You better shut up on the topic.

You know what I remember the most? 'And he's been a good neighbour, helpful'.

nott: But show me something written in Ukrainian before the 19th century.

Written in Ruthenian. You may claim it as old-Ukrainian, and actually, from what I know, it had already split from the pre-Russian Ruthenian, but it's Ruthenian still. Nobody dreamt about Ukrainian before 19th century.

But I give you that, you are entitled to search for roots, and this root is quite feasible. Only I was thinking about something like a novel, or a poem. Original literature, you know, not a translation of a millennia old foreign book.

You know perfectly I can't fight with all c***s on PF.

Oh you can, and you might find allies here. Only you chose wrong tactic, not unlike most of Ukrainians in 1918, and in 1940ies. You want to fight everybody and win more than everything, so everybody stomps on you.

I repeat, most Poles don't understand Ukrainian hatred, and are rather sympathetic. Use it. The latest experiences are good, there's already much to build on.

Think of it, Nathan. Take a break, see a movie, relax.
nott   
16 Dec 2010
History / Tuchola in Poland - roots of Katyn? [220]

nott: Poltava means Russian Cossacs. Hardly a Ukrainian.

Why not. Cuts me down to size :)

You mean Poltawa where Russians beat crap out of Swedes? And out of Ukrainians too, as you say? :)

That's why Poltava was Russia for me. What where they doing there, actually, in the center of Ukraine? :)

nott: Must be too big, didn't fit.

I don't care to make a special research to find out that some Italians consider some Ukrainian worth their cup. The name is completely alien to me, and to everybody here, I bet. Nodoby to care about, obviously.

nott: Taras Shevchenko, Founder of the Ukrainian language.

Not really. 'Pre-modern Ukrainian' was 'Ruthenian.'

Ok, this is a bit of stretch. But show me something written in Ukrainian before the 19th century.

nott:Awarded Stalin Prize twice. Some Ukrainian patriot. And nobody heard of him outside USSR

Ok, maybe he was a brave man. A local hero, Nathan.

nott: A cheat, Nathan. Just like you :)

Why a cheat?

You tried to show it as some achievement.

Wow, and that is the one who lies about Poltava and Shevchenko?

Don't start with the 'lie' word, Nathan, or you'll end in the same bin with Harry.

I don't blow achievements of my nation - I simply presented them. Show me where I exaggerated, please?

You presented them from your local point of view, which is not necessarily recognized out of Ukraine, being hardly important. And you even tried to hijack a well known Russian author.

I beg you to answer me these 3 points:

Shevchenko-founder check, done
Poltava-Russian Cossacks check, done
blowing out of proportions done

Omission of answering them with honesty I am accepting as cowardness.

Feel free.

I was trying to be polite in regards to people mentioned by Pennboy, but you seem to ask me to be open. I will be.

I don't know who Drzewiecki was myself. You don't know Wajda because you lived in the USSR. Modjeska was famous, but long ago, Lukasiewicz no so very much, actually. Sklodowska is a rather basic name. But it all boils down to the fact that you can't even speak about Ukrainian culture before the 19th century.

Kopernikus was a German astronomer and I don't understand why Pennboy tries to present him as Polish - jealousy?!

He is considered Polish all over the world, due to the realities of the time. His ethnicity doesn't matter too much, as it didn't then. Doesn't matter much, Poland has a lot of spares.

Polanski is a renowned pedophile who shot "Pianist" movie, so what exactly are you proud of, frankly, beats me. His promiscuity?

He shot hell of a lot of other movies before, and those done in Poland are known in the West too. Wherever he pokes his prick in is rather irrelevant.

My point was a possibility to cooperate in defending both Ukrainian and Polish lands.

My point is there was nobody to cooperate with. Even if those 'general's were set free, they'd need some soldiers to command, which they didn't have, and some equipment to brandish, which they didn't have neither. The whole Ukraine that might've been considered an ally by anybody fitted comfortably in one small Polish camp. And in some Soviet camps, I presume.

I think it was great the way it all occurred. I am really happy :)))

And that puzzles me a bit. Poland had a chance, used it. Ukraine had a chance, buggered it magnificently. What with those millions of soldiers. And you are happy :)

Nathan, I do not want to fight you. My family comes from near the Ukrainian border, I should be naturally inclined to hate your guts, I don't. They don't neither, times has changed. Now they buy Ukrainian trade and employ Ukrainian people, and everybody is happy. Poles living a bit more to the West don't even understand the Ukrainian hate, and feel muchly disappointed that the only reasonable potential ally is looking to Russians. But if so, then so be it, we don't really need Ukraine.

It's off topic here. You want to develop it, make a thread, I'll show up. Just try to start with something not exactly infuriating.
nott   
16 Dec 2010
History / Tuchola in Poland - roots of Katyn? [220]

'Generals'. Yes they were, in Bereza. Ukrainian rabid nationalists, detained for anti-Polish activity, along a couple of thousand of others. Nathan, let me point out that one single truth: had they been able to summon, say, a 100 thousand strong army, they'd have been free. Had they been able to summon your millions of soldiers, Poland would've been a Ukrainian province since then until now.

I will just list a few Ukrainians and a brief info and you tell me:

It's like kicking a puppy...

Oleksander DovzhenkoA Soviet screenwriter, producer and director of films
His paternal ancestors were Cossacks who settled in Sosnytsia in the eighteenth century, coming from the neighbouring province of Poltava.


Poltava means Russian Cossacs. Hardly a Ukrainian. Awarded Stalin Prize twice. Some Ukrainian patriot. And nobody heard of him outside USSR, which is a good thing, rather.

Roman Viktiuk not in Wiki. Must be too big, didn't fit.

Taras Shevchenko (1814-1861) Hats off, great poet. Founder of the Ukrainian language. In the 19th century. You know, Nathan, who is considered a founder of Polish literary language and when he happened to Poland? And why so late?

Ivan Franko (1856-1916) son of a village blacksmith of German ancestry.[1] His mother was of petty Polish noble origin. What did Sokrates say about where the civilisation came from... and who was he, actually?

Lesya Ukrainka (1871-1913) Pavlo Zahrebelny (1924-2009) pity nobody knows them outside your parish

Mikhail Bulhakow well, everybody knows him, right, Master and Margerita... and most people know he was a Russian. Why didn't you claim Mickiewicz, like the Lithuanians and Bielorussians do.

Ivan Puliuj (..) 1845-1918 (..) Ukrainian physicist, inventor and patriot who has been championed as an early developer of the use of X-rays for medical imaging. His contributions were largely neglected until the end of the 20th century. He wrote on what is now known as X-rays more than decade before Roentgen

Unrecognized genius, bad luck. I sympathise. You know Siemienowicz? A Polish pioneer of rocket-science, 17th century. I know the pain, Nathan, only mine is older by some 250 years :)

Oleksander Bohomolets (1881-1946) was a famous Ukrainian physiologist, director of the Institute of Physiology in Kiev. His laboratories were located in Abkhazia and Georgia, where had a permanent research unit attached to the Academy of Sciences (1937). He founded the Institute of Experimental Biology and Pathology and the Institute of Experimental Clinical Physiology at the Ukrainian Academy of Science in Kiev. Creator of Bohomolets serum.

Why so modest, Nathan. Why not fully quote what Wiki says about this serum:

He prepared a serum named after him (Bogomolets'serum) which was intended to prolong life by 140 years. He made such promises to receive continued financial support of his work from Stalin.

A cheat, Nathan. Just like you :)

Danylo Zabolotnij (1866-1929) was a Ukrainian epidemiologist and the founder of the world's first research department of epidemiology. In 1927, he published one of the first texts in his field, Fundamentals of Epidemiology.
Zabolotnij conducted groundbreaking research on a number of infectious diseases, including cholera, diphtheria, dysentery, plague, syphilis and typhus, as well as on gangrene.

Right. And that's all what Wiki is able to say about this great scientist.

Solomija Krushelnytska - (23 September 1872 - 18 November 1952) was one of the brightest Ukrainian opera stars of the first half of the 20th century.

Bravissima. Almost 3 pages in Wiki. See Pola Negri and Modjeska.

So, actually, your list goes down to a couple of people. And the most ancient of them was born in 1814. Some cultural tradition.

And now back to your statement:

Who is twisting the truth and see things they'd like them to be?

Part of culture, Nathan, is the attitude to reality. The ability to see things as they are, and not as you'd like them to be. Ukrainian is a young nation, trying to blow its achievements up out of proportion is ridiculous and immature. As suits, but the sooner you grow up, the sooner you will be treated seriously.
nott   
13 Dec 2010
History / Tuchola in Poland - roots of Katyn? [220]

Read the thread, before. What Ukrainians were there in 1939 to make an alliance with? Any names? Like some Ukrainian head of state, or, at least, some General Staff of the mighty Ukrainian army? Any rogue vatazhka only waiting to fight the Germans and the Soviets, provided the Poles smile to him? Petlura was long dead.

:))) Damn, my ancestors were right. There was no hope to deal with such intelligence ;)

Any facts to explain your amusement?

Back on topic, or in the bin it goes

Right. But, you know, stupid threads tend to wander.
nott   
13 Dec 2010
History / Tuchola in Poland - roots of Katyn? [220]

Their view is clouded by Poland's actions between 1919 and 1939.

Oh, their view was clouded by Poles, and Polish view was typical Polish. That explains a lot, actually.

Or do you need reminding about the annexation of Lithuanian and Czech territory?

Lithuanian, you mean the region with overwhelming Polish majority, under Polish control, granted to Lithuania by the Soviets in the 1920 Treaty in exchange for the right to freely move troops through Lithuania against Poland?

Czech territory... You mean Czechoslovakia would've had succesfully attacked Germany in 1939, only if Poland hadn't taken that bit near Cieszyn a year before. As it were, they were simply pouting. Good they didn't help the Germans, we'd have been taken in hours then, and no Polish legend of September. What with the famous Czech ferocity and immense army.

Got any other candidates for Polish allies in 1939? Belarussians? Lemkos? Kashebe? Wolochians?

Ukrainians had no army, but can you imagine the UPA on the Polish side?

In September 1939? Hardly. And there was no UPA yet. And they considered themselves an army. Did I miss anything? Oh, yes. They were nationalists. Ukrainian nationalists, fighting to carve a Ukrainian state out of Polish territory. That's why they murdered Poles, not Germans.

I still cannot comprehend why Poland trusted an ally which had a Prime Minister that didn't want war with Hitler.

Cultural differences, possibly. That PM signed a treaty.

Poland had a rather limited choice, delph.

Have you ever considered that perhaps, France and the UK (and the USA too, probably) wanted Germany and the Soviet Union to smash each other to pieces?

No, I haven't. And never heard anybody suggesting it.
nott   
13 Dec 2010
History / Tuchola in Poland - roots of Katyn? [220]

So - you're telling me that the Polish forces didn't withdraw to that area near Lwów before the Russians invaded?

I say Poland did. You say Poland was routed. I say Poland was ready for a long defence in Polesie, with Germans running out of supplies, you say Poland was defeated.

Poland was beaten the moment it became obvious that the UK/French forces had no intention of seriously engaging Germany.

Became obvious. A bit late to include this truth in the defence plans. That's what we call the Western Betrayal exactly. Promises of engaging the common enemy in due time, not fulfilled.

With a traditional army, they had no chance of surviving.

Except if the Allies did a little bit, with traditional army. Like bombing. Or moving some divisions a little bit more to the East. Into the German territory, like. With intent to proceed, Inshallah.
nott   
13 Dec 2010
History / Tuchola in Poland - roots of Katyn? [220]

The Russians only invaded once it was obvious that Poland had lost, anyway.

Etc.

You're hopeless, man, really. Do some proper reading before you start posting opinions on Polish history. I can understand your pro-Michnik stance on how communism fell, but WW2 should be free of this bias. I thought.

Ah, typical Polish view - "omg, how could we consider going into alliance with LITHUANIANS. And Czechoslovaks, no way! AND UKRAINIANS?! NO ******* WAY".

Right. Now ask the Lithuanians and Czechs what is their typical Polish view. Ukrainians had no army, if I may refresh your memory.